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From WSJ, How Sweatpants Managers Can Stay Motivated<\/a>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

the ideal high-performance mind-set is a balance between the \u201cblue\u201d functions of the brain (logical and analytical thinking) and its primal \u201cred\u201d functions (powerful feelings and emotions). Too much blue can lead us to overthink things and suffer \u201cparalysis by analysis,\u201d he says, while too much red can make us lose control.<\/p>

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A to-do list, Dr. Evans says, is basically \u201cblue-brain heaven.\u201d By enumerating tasks, we\u2019re trying to make the way forward seem more logical and linear. But the items on our lists can be profoundly different.<\/p>

If you need to renew your auto registration, that is a straightforward and logical \u201cblue\u201d job. But if you need to have a painful conversation with a colleague or start looking for a new job, that task carries an emotionally loaded \u201cred\u201d charge.<\/p>

The fatal flaw of to-do lists is that by ticking off a bunch of blue items, people can convince themselves they\u2019ve made real progress and that it\u2019s OK to skip all the red items that fill them with existential dread.<\/p>

\u201cOur red minds can\u2019t be silenced,\u201d Dr. Evans says. Ignoring the red stuff leaves a feeling of chronic pressure and tension that is never released and may start to feel permanent. \u201cIt creates an emotional burden we carry around day after day,\u201d he says.<\/p>

Dr. Evans doesn\u2019t think you should scrap your to-do list: he suggests dividing items into red and blue and committing yourself to tackling one red task a day, ideally before noon. \u201cDon\u2019t be a hero,\u201d he says, \u201cjust do one.\u201d<\/p>

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It happened way too many times. Often I have a “red” item on my todo list day after day but it’s never got done, and it definitely has a mental cost when I’m doing other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From WSJ, How Sweatpants Managers Can Stay Motivated: the ideal high-performance mind-set is a balance between the \u201cblue\u201d functions of the brain (logical and analytical thinking) and its primal \u201cred\u201d functions (powerful feelings and emotions). Too much blue can lead us to overthink things and suffer \u201cparalysis by analysis,\u201d he says, while too much red… Continue reading Productivity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}